ports/116412: Screen artifacts with radeon X driver

Mon Sep 17 04:00:07 UTC 2007

>Number:         116412
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Screen artifacts with radeon X driver
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 17 04:00:06 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     John Merryweather Cooper,600 SE Jamar Street No.672 Pullman WA 99163,,509-333-8322
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #72: Wed Sep 12 09:53:46 PDT 2007
    root at borgdemon2.resnet.wsu.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/P4

>Description:

I have a complete install of x11/xorg (7.3).  The computer is a Dell Inspiron 5100 (2.8 GHz) with 512 M RAM and an ATI Radeon display card.  Xorg 7.2's radeon driver worked without a hitch.  Not so with 7.3.  I have the following video artifacts:

1) a 10-15 pixel wide vertical line running right through the middle of the GNOME icon on the upper panel to the bottom of the screen.

2) a "shimmering" effect particularly evident arount all fonts (pixels appear to "move" clockwise around all fonts).

3) images have reduced sharpness.

>How-To-Repeat:

n/a

>Fix:

Workaround is to switch to VESA driver for now (which works perfectly if slightly slower).

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